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"You've been one of the best goddamn students I've had, kid," drawled Brisa, smirking. "I used to avoid folks when I was anxious about shit, too. Not so long ago, even. Now, let's put that behind ya, an' get goin'. We got a mission to prepare fer. Are y'ready? I'm gonna be countin' on you."

"I ain't a legend, Koa," said Brisa, quietly. "Just a kid who grew up wantin' t'be a hero and ended up fulla fuckin' Blacklight that lets me look like one fer a spell. Anyway, I was the one who insisted on goin' with Soda's plan as a safe contingency against a berserk Maple. If y'blame yerself...

Brisa sighed. One of those spirals. Not totally unfamiliar to her... Brisa let her mind sit for a moment, contemplating. Beside her, Koa stewed in his own distress. "You're doin' just fine," she began, calmly. "We've had worse mistakes'n you've made and fought through 'em. The team don't hate...

"Hmm." Brisa wet her mouth, which had become distinctly dry as Koa spoke. What... What would she have needed to hear when she was his age, putting so much effort into everything it felt like it'd burn a hole in her chest? "...You don't owe it t'me to be 'better', or to be a partic'lar way...

Brisa grinned. Loyalty, huh? Sure. It was a virtue among the Escarpa luxray. "Seems like I trained you well enough," she quipped. "Good attitude, Koa. Strength alone ain't as valuable as strength t'gether. I reckon you've proven you understand that, with yer performance in Spectrum missions...

Brisa smiled. "Lotta good can come of folks stickin' by each other when they didn't expect to." Starr. Astrid. Cynthian and Icetales. Hell, that wild gal Sword. And back home, even Gil. It had been months since she'd seen the li'l golem. "So, a shinx, huh?" she said, quickly, trying to fill up...

Brisa raised a brow and flicked her tail. "If'n y'say so, partner. But yer welcome t'stay and spend time any time ya like." She looked hard at Koa, wondering what that regular fluctuation between warmth and the cold shoulder was about. Insecurity? Too much hero-worship? Just teenage bullshit...

It's not easy, not being able to choose. You use that strength for good, though. Something tightened in her throat and behind her eyes, and she didn't say anything for a moment, nor take a breath. She didn't want the kid to think he'd said the wrong thing, though... She could fix that. She put...

"Yeah." Here she went again, telling the story. She'd be telling it a little differently this time, being a little different herself since she last told it. "My pa, Jesse, became a red delphox in my world. He was summoned by our Voice of Life to save the world, and he did, and I guess that...

Bit awkward to have left it this late to mention, but there was nothing for it. Brisa nodded. "Mountain luxio, takin' after my luxray ma. I was born a shinx, much like any other. But my pa is like you an' Dave and whoever. A former human. And I inherited somethin' of his soul an' power from him."

It sure felt natural. And yet it didn't feel... No, that was something to discuss with Fugu in a session, for sure. "You'll probably end up usin' it under sufficient pressure," mused Brisa. "It's downright ordinary fer 'mon to develop new powers an' abilities in a crisis or emergency, even...

Brisa tilted her head and smirked, just a little. Just for a second. "Gonna give it a go?" Right. Cool. Sick. She was really leaving an impression on this kid, huh? Maybe that was okay. "I reckon we can all do it," she said, more seriously. "Seems like it's gonna happen in most or all of the...

Brisa chuckled nervously. She had done that, huh... She was... She was gonna have to figure that one out. Maybe in therapy. "Sure seems like it's somethin' the whole team can do now, if they dig deep enough. Ever since that transformation Diyem did. I guess I just..." "I guess it's just a...

Brisa's face was still gently beaming from her celebratory meal with her best friends, , but it lit up further as Koa rushed toward her. Of course the kid had watched her match. Damn near everyone would've seen that. Kinda thrilling to think... "Sure fuckin' did, partner," she drawled...

"Sure y'would've, partner!" Luz agreed, laughing as Puddle dropped off and followed Vix away. "Seeya round, y'all," called Brisa, smiling unexpectedly. Brisa gave a wave to her departing friends. How strange to have so many, after so long assuming it was impossible. If they were on Cibus much...

Jesse and Sierra... They weren't the greatest, no. Not in every measure, anyhow. Vix didn't even know that it was their absence which had been killing Brisa for years, nor that she'd dealt with Jesse after coming to Cibus... Now wasn't the time to explain all that. "I dunno, Vix. Maybe I'll...

Gods, she'd hit that target in one, huh. "Uh, yeah. My pa's human. He was brought to my world specifically t'save it an' I guess he stuck around to have me." She didn't know how to explain how hard that had made her life, or even if she should. Being miserable wasn't a great way to make a...

Brisa grinned darkly. Eera and Castiss were bandit-hunters, huh? They sounded rather more deadly than Brisa ever was, but she'd certainly come back from her share of missions covered in outlaws' blood. "Ah, well... I always admired the Wanderin' Light, Zeraora Luz Escarpa. Grew up hearin'...

Brisa chewed that one over for a second. Certainly all the folks on Team Spectrum, the God Squad, the Luz of myth and the Luz beside her, and her own parents... They were all different. All good fighters, sure, but there wasn't even a single way to do that, as she kept telling Icetales and other...

Well, Vix was sure excited about being a hero, or something like that... Brisa could talk about that. Albeit with some discomfort. "Wait, so when you say 'hero', y'don't rightly know what y'have in mind?" asked Brisa. "Even so, it's . . . admirable, that you'd wanna be one. Even if I ain't...